Shot in an L.A. church during the recording sessions for her fabled 1972 album, Aretha Franklin's 46-year-old gospel concert film is finally seeing the light of day. What it reveals is the glory of ...

Forty-six years after an Aretha Franklin gospel concert film was shot and abandoned, amazement is truly in order. The Franklin estate and producer Alan Elliott have reached an agreement to release the ...

A late entrant into the Oscar documentary race could prove a formidable contender. Amazing Grace, which documents the live recording of Aretha Franklin’s gospel album in 1972, had been mired in ...

When my wife and I started dating, she got free tickets to a gospel show at Radio City Music Hall. I never really listened to gospel but was aware of rock and R&B’s debt to it and figured it would be ...

What would you say if you had the opportunity to be a fly on the wall while the incomparable Aretha Franklin sang her heart out at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972, ...

Aretha Franklin sings in a scene from "Amazing Grace." Courtesy of Al's Records and Tapes Aretha Franklin’s “Amazing Grace” documentary was long held up from release due to technical and then legal ...

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For close to 50 years, Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace" concert film was a buried treasure. Now that it's finally being unearthed, it can simply be considered a treasure. The 1972 documentary, which ...

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The maker of Amazing Grace, the 2018 documentary about Aretha Franklin’s live-album recording at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, are suing indie-darling distributor ...